Digger wrote on 07/23/09 at 21:38:40:






Digger, I believe your wife believes she is correct in her memory  but we need to be scientific here, and examine all the facts.  So with all due respect I offer the following...

Ladies and gentlemen, these are the facts:

We know it is a device;
it is a knob with attached cable which obviously controls some kind of valve or lever or some such thing;
it is used on "suction machines" & we all know that a motorcycle engine is a suction machine;  
**  therefore, even though some misguided engineer (who always REALLY wanted to design motorcycles to begin with) made this thing function in some kind of medical device despite the fact that its original design function was as an enricher/choke for a motorcycle carburetor.  

As supportive evidense I offer this choke cable as shown in the Sudco catalog, pg 98, part #007-208




I mean really, when we are just sitting around and our minds are wondering, we all know that ideas about parts and function of assorted parts and using THINGS that we can make to work for something we don't have for some unintended purpose is what we do a lot of the time.  Owning a Savage or S40, which is so disrespected and  forgotten by the after market suppliers is something that creates in us a MINDSET of creativity.  We become inventors by necessity.
Anyway, this knob-cable assembly was certainly destined to be a choke knob.

Hmmm, i thought it looked like one of the old a/c vent pulls, off say, a 60's Fairlane or somethin'.
Or you could acually choke someone with iit........

HUH?